October 9, 2025 • 29 mins
In this powerful hour, Sean Hannity dives deep into revelations surrounding the FBI’s treatment of former White House advisor Peter Navarro. Joined by investigative journalist John Solomon, the conversation uncovers what both describe as a disturbing example of “the process as the punishment,” where federal power is allegedly used to intimidate political opponents. Navarro recounts his highly publicized airport arrest and links it to a pattern of politicization that began during the Russia collusion era. Solomon connects new whistleblower documents to a broader culture of bias and unaccountability within the FBI. Together, they call for transparency, reform, and accountability to restore public faith in America’s justice system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up next, our final news round up and Information Overload, our.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
All right news round up in Information Overload, our here's
our toll free telephone number. If you want to be
a part of the program, It's eight hundred and ninety
four one Sean if you want to join us. We're
learning now through our friend John Solomon, who will join
us in a minute. In the horror that Peter Navarro,
our friend, went through, as Senator Chuck Rassley said, this
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may be worse than Watergate. I'm talking about this Arctic
Frost investigation and Jack Smith, and it is, it is
so beyond the pal Now we have a full understanding
that he was targeting eight US senators and congress people
as well. But Grassley, you know, showed us earlier in
(00:48):
this week, two days ago he shed light on how
they handled the arrest of Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro has
been a long time friend of this program. He's a
good man. Peter Navarro was held in contempt to Congress,
which by the way, is a misdemeanor. And because of
whistleblowers and John Solomon's reporting, they provided additional records to
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Chuck Grassley related to the Biden FBI. And you know
the most incredible part of this story is Peter Navarro
lives next store to FBI headquarters, so he would have
willingly turned himself in. They were talking to his lawyers,
but no, Instead they decided to follow him and surveil
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him and his fiance all morning, follow him, and then
arrest him in public at Reagan Airport. It's called a
purp walk all over a misdemeanor charge. He could have
just walked next door. It would have been that simple.
A lot of this information over the last ten years
we would not have but for my friend John Solomon.
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And he does not get enough credit for all of
his you know, incredible reporting. He's been a partner with
us on radio and TV, and this is something we
have talked about privately for years and now it's all
beginning to come to light. And thank god it is
John Solomon.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And good to be with you, Sean. And by the way,
I couldn't have done any of it without you every
day helping me and getting it out and explaining it
to the American public. So I'm very grateful for everything
you've done for me.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, I'm going to tell you, so why don't you
give your take on the story, and then we'll go
to the personal side. And a great article that was
written by Peter in a second.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So, a couple of years ago I interviewed an fbig
and he'd served for two three decades, and he said,
at the very end of his career, he became very
disturbed by what he saw in the Komei ray era
of the FBI. And he said, part of it was bias,
going after liberals differently than you, and after conservatives. Liberals
got a past, conservatives got the hardest path possible. But
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the most concerning of all things is he started to see,
particularly in the era of Russia collusion to January sixth,
that they were creating making it so that the FBI
would make the process the punishment, meaning if you didn't
something wrong, they were going to put you through a
process that was so punishing it would break you financially,
would break you psychiologically. And he said that we made
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the process the punishment for people we didn't like, and
that disturbed him more than anything. He saw it as
an abuse of power and abuse of color of government authority.
And so when I got this document a couple of
days ago, compliments of Cash Barttel and Senator Chuck Passley.
It really gave us perhaps the most compelling example to
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date of what that looks like. As you mentioned, Peter
Navarro is in a dispute between Congress and the old
Trump White House. It's a constitutional issue. He's decided not
to testify the honor President Trump's claims of executive privile
which the Biden Justice Department and the Democratic Congress decide
they want to find him in contempt demeanor issue. FBI
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doesn't even normally make arrest and misdemeanor issues. They usually
just give you a summons and you show up in court.
But in this case, they not only planned to arrest
Peter Navarro, they intended to make it the most onerous
possible public spectacle they could. And so they took a
surveillance team, the team that you normally say for major spies,
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for major terrorists, for major drug king pens. Yeah, yeah,
that's it. They have this group that does this, and
they surveilled them all day in the day they want
to arrest them, to wait for the moment where he
was in the most public, possible humiliating place, so that
then they can arrest him and humiliate him in public
on a misdemeanor, basically an administrative dispute between Congress and
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there and they do that. They wait till he gets
to the airport, they arrest him, they put him in
leg irons. This is a seventy four year old guy.
He ate running off their own form show. They knew
he was not armed or dangerous, but they went through
that process to make sure that the process was the punishment.
Even if he were to be a quit down the
road or found that have done nothing wrong, they will
have humiliated him in public with the power and color
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of government authority. That's what this document shows. Senator Grassey said,
it was a prime example of the politicization of the
White House. And when you look at the document and
you look at what happened, you have to ask yourself,
why did we the taxpayer, spend all that money to
surveiled a man who was willing to turn himself in
just so that someone could make a political statement under
the color of the FBI authority. And that is a
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legacy of the Chris Ray Justice Department. Everyone focuses on
Komy for all the right reasons that you and I chronicled,
but Chris raised, FBI worked the same way. He might
have had a different personality and congressional hearings, he might
have got a different pass from Republicans in Congress. But
Chris raised, FBI did the same weaponization, the same politicization
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that Comy's did. And when you're all done and said,
one of the most important documents I made public in
the last three weeks, it's a after action report. And
in that after action report, there are scores of FBI agents, scores,
not one or two, scores of agents saying we have
become a politically biased agency, that we treat liberals different
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the conservatives, that we are not following the letter of
the law, we're following the letter of politics. They use
words like we're political pawns, where we have political bias.
We're no longer good in our core competencies because we're
more worried about what color mask we wear and what
gender we hire than about solving crimes. Perhaps it was
in real time FBI agent's boiling over and telling Chris
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Ray's leadership we got a bias problem, and Chris Ray
swept that under the rug. That document was created in
twenty twenty one after the January sixth, investigation began. Four
years later we finally learned about it. It is an
extraordinary document. When Chris Ray looked at everybody and said, oh,
political bias is a MAGA talking point. At that moment,
there was a body of evidence that said his own
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agents knew they had a political bias problem. That's what
the Peter Navarro story is all about.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Peter, You've become a good friend and I've come to
admire you so much. I went to prison so you
won't have to. You live right next door to the FBI, right,
that's I mean? And you even offered to turn yourself
in if they were going to come after you. Is
that correct?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Check both boxes. I was a field goal kicker back
in the day. I did literally kick of field goals
from my apartment building and hit the FBI that it
was that close. And what's true. By the way, John,
you are in the dedication of I went to prison
so you won't have to because of all the support
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you gave me over the years, and I can't thank
you enough. And I should say that I always loved
years ago, starting years ago, how you would go through
your monologues with breaking down the Russia hoax like step
by staff, person by person by person. And I think, Sean,
what's important about what we're learning now about by arrest
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from these documents is that I am kind of like
the thread that weaves over an eight year period of conspiracy.
Don't use that word lightly. Through this agent Walter Giardina
FBI agent Walter Gene. He was the guy who led
this crazy takedown to me at the airport, who put
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me in handcuffs, who put me in leg irons. But
he's also the guy, going back Sean to twenty sixteen
and twenty seventeen, who gave the green light to the
Steele dossier as being legitimate, which begat crossed by a hurricane,
which Giordina was involved in. He was involved in the
Muller Report, Operation Crimson River, which was that crazy Egyptian
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fake thing, and then Arctic Frost, which you're referencing now,
and I got caught in the middle of Hull Wave.
It wasn't just the fact that the process was punishment.
Process was punishment, but I also went to prison. But Sean,
everybody I served with in the Trump White House in
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the first term paid a weaponized law fare price. Whether
It was hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars in
legal fees on one end, or imprisonment on the other end,
and everything in between. And I'll tell you what, Sean,
if I had gotten that document that was just released
this week by whistleblowers during my trial, that would have
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been a game changer. But the judge Obama appointee who
got his job bundling campaign contribution for Obama and the
prosecutors denied me that document and a whole bunch of others,
which I think are going to come to light because
of the good work of the FBI and folks like Solomon,
and everything about what I went through was weaponization. Everybody involved, Sean,
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with my incarceration was a Democrat, every single person, whether
the Congress, the Attorney General, the Matt Graves, the US
district attorney. If you had my prosecutors Alloy and crab
and they all have name Sean, and the whole point
of I went to prison so you won't have to
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That's the tagline from the speech Sun and I gave
the day. The night of the day I got out
of prison, I walked onto that stage, didn't know what
to expect. I was just so warmed by that reception.
But I went to prison so you won't have to.
Is the warning call. If we don't hold these people accountable, John,
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they will do it again and again and again. And
that was on full display this week with the Senate
Judiciary hearing that gractually held because when he turned the
microphone over to those clowns on the Democrat side of
the fence, whether it was Durban or Shift or everybody
in between, they talked just like they wanted to do
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it again again. They have learned nothing, nothing, and so
we've got to hold them accountable. It's Old Testament time, Sean.
And because of all the work you've done over the years,
we know their names. It's not just call me. It's Clapper,
it's Brennon, it's Page, it's Struck, it's Rosensteam, it's Shift.
You just go on down the line. We've got a
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problem we've got to solve. If we don't solve it, Sean,
we're going to just keep doing this crazy stuff. We
weaponize justice system. The American people are losing faith in
the whole system, Sir, quick.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Break right back more with Peter Navarro. You've got to
read his book. I went to prison, so you don't
have to Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, bookstores around
the country. And John Solomon, editor in chief, founder and
chief investigative reporter justinnews dot com. More on the other side.
As we continue Sean Hannity defending freedom, providing clarity, and
(11:58):
calling out the left now more than ever we need Kennedy. Right,
(12:31):
we continue now with John Solomon justinnews dot com. He
is the founder, editor in chief and the chief investigative reporter,
and our friend Peter Navarro. I went to prison so
you won't have to unbelievable developments in this story. What
they did, the lengths they went to try and embarrass
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and humiliate him over a misdemeanor, it is unprecedented and
has to stop. You wrote, sir that this circus arrest
was not an anomaly. It was a case study in
law fair where the process is the punishment. They could
have again, you could have walked over. You're in your
seventies and they're putting you in handcuffs and leg irons
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over a misdemeanor, and oh it just so happens. Fake
news CNN cameras just happened to be there, like they
happened to be at Roger Stone's house at five am
the morning that they raided his house. Oh what a
I'm sure just a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, And let's forget Jeff Clark, who they banged down
the door on. And he's poor, poor young, very young children.
Manafort two, expose to that and Maniford. And I'll tell
you one of the themes, Sean, if I went to prison,
if you get to cover, it's got my fiance with
me on that stage and she actually it's a The
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book is largely a diary kept by both myself and Bonnie.
And the lesson there for these weaponized democrats is that
it's not just when you come after me, Okay, that's fine,
but when you go after family loved ones, they wind
up doing the time with you. And Bonnie did the
time with me, Sean. She stood by me, but it
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was tough and and these people need to be held
accountable for that. And I understand politics, and okay, it's
a dirty, dirty business. They went after me, but they
when they went after her, they purp blocked her, Sean,
they purp blocked her.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I mean that that you can't you can't do well
I'm going to say this, and both of you are
going to be on TV tonight, and you did this
out of principle.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You could have pled the fifth and walked out of
there and it would have been done. But you you
believe so much in our constitution and executive privilege, and
unless the President himself waive that, and he did not,
h you're right in terms of the law and the
principles of it. John Solomon, just real quick, Peter mentioned
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you know this one particular arresting agent. But I want
to know who made the who gave the order. I
want to know who knew and this would be at
the time of direct array at that point.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's correct. I believe Congress is beginning to put those
documents together all the way up the food chain. Who
was approving, extending, encouraging the carrying out of arctic frost.
It's going to certainly lead up to the top of
the Washington Field, also the FBI. I think it's going
to go much higher. We hope to see some of
those documents transmitted to Congress in the next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
We really have a lot more to get into. We're
going to finish this conversation tonight on Hannity. I'm so
glad grateful for both of you. I appreciate your courage. Peter,
I appreciate your hard nosed reporting. John, thank you both.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2 (17:35):
So immediately as the news was breaking, as I was
coming on the air last night on Hannity on Fox News,
I just texted the President. I said, Wow, I didn't
think i'd see this in my lifetime. I'll be, you know,
very transparent with what I said. I really didn't think
i'd see this in my lifetime. And the real possibility
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of real peace. I mean for two years and now
three days we've had all these hostages and those that
our remaining will be released. The bodies of those that
did not survive will be released to their families as well.
That's obviously very important to them. And I just said
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to the President, I said, I'd love to hear your
thoughts on it, with any chance you'd call in, and
he said yes, right away, And I want to play
that interview. This is right after the deal was announced.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Joining us now live on the phone is the President
of the United States, Donald J.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Mister President. Wow, if you would have asked me two
years ago, yesterday, if this was possible, I would have
bet everything I had. No congratulations, sir. Can you give
us more of the details.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
John.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's a great honor to be involved in it. We
had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from
Steve Whitcoff and Jared Krishtier and Marco and we had
everybody JD. The whole group was just amazing. And the
military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done.
(19:09):
We have a great military with great leadership. The whole
world came together. To be honest, so many countries that
you wouldn't have even thought of it, they came together.
The world has come together around this deal, and that's
something I would say that without that, it wouldn't happen.
So many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have
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wired their best wishes and their commitment to do whatever
is necessary. The country surrounding of all signed. I mean,
they're all signed up, and it's been really an amazing
period of time and so great for Israel, so great
for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great for
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this country, for the United States of America, and that
we could be involved in, you know, making a deal
like this happened because it was you know, many years
talk about peace in the Middle East. This is more
than Gaza. This is peace in the Middle East, and
it's an incredible thing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Mister President, you said in your statement that this is
the first phase of the peace plan and that the
hostages will be released very soon. I assume that means
both those that are alive and those that are not alive,
and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed uponline.
Can you expand on that and tell us maybe.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
What part two?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is there a part two or part three? Because the
idea has to be a lasting piece, and would that
include the security guarantees that Hamas can no longer be
armed with weapons that they can fire into Israel. I
was in a city, a border city in Gaza. Near Gaza,
they got hit with ten thousand rockets in ten years.
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I was in those terri tunnels.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I think you're going to see all of that disappear.
I think you're going to see people get along and
you'll see gads are being rebuilt. We're forming a council
that the Council of Peace. We think it's going to
be called, and it's going to be very powerful and
it's going to really uh. I think to a large extent,
it's going to have a lot to do with the
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whole Gaza situation. People are going to be taken care of.
It's going to be a different world. I think. Really
the Middle East came together amazingly. They came together. You know,
they have some countries with extraordinary wealth and just spending
a small portion of that wealth can do so much
for that area. So will we'll be involved in it.
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But the big the big thing is hostages are going
to be released. It's probably our time would be probably Monday,
and you know, it's it's they're terribly a terrible situation.
They're they're deep, they're deep in the earth, and they're
being gotten and a lot of things are happening right
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now as we speak. How much is happening to get
the hostages freed, and we think they'll all be coming
back on Monday, So it looks like that's the thing,
and that'll include the bodies of the dead. And you know,
the parents, the parents that we're I talked to so
many of them, but the parents are more almost more intent,
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but equally intent is getting here. In just about all cases,
the son their son's body back than they are as
though the young man was alive. It's just the same
intensity they want. They want their baby's body back. That's
what one woman said, I want my baby's body back.
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And you know the son is twenty five, twenty six
years old, so that's a very big part of it.
Getting all of the it's about twenty eight. The number
is twenty eight will be coming back, but unfortunately dead.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Mister President will last question, and I could ask you
a million questions about the Schumer shutdown, about the Antifa
roundtable you had today. I can get you know me,
I can keep going, but.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
By the end of this term as president. What vision
do you have? What would you like to see Gozl
look like? What will the relationship with Israel and other
Middle Eastern countries be like? You know, as this, as
this process continues to unfold, and as you have convinced
these other nations to finally involve themselves, and then we'll
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let you go, sir, Well, Gaz is going to.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Be a peaceful, much safer place. Obviously it's been blown
to pieces, and this is just not by Israel. This
is over years and years and years. It's been heartache
for many years. A lot of people say this is
a deal for three thousand years. So whether you say
five hundred, because some people say five hundred based on events,
but other people say this is something historic for three
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thousand years, is nothing ever going to be bigger than this.
And so Gaza, we believe, is going to be a
much safer place, and it's going to be a place
that reconstructs, and other countries in the area will help
it reconstruct because they have tremendous amounts of wealth and
they want to see that happen and will be involved
in helping them make it successful and helping it stay peaceful.
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But I think it's going to be peaceful. I think again,
the Iran situation was very important doing what we had
to do, which was again twenty two years. It was
planned to be done and nobody, no other president wanted
to do it or whatever for whatever reason, but they
didn't do it, and having that was very important. But
you know, very I'm very confident there'll be peace in
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the Middle East. I mean the words peace in the
Middle East is something people have been striving for for
hundreds of years, for centuries, for many centuries, and we
really have. Every country has come together and on a
little differ, different scale, but so important. It seems like
everything's at a different scale. But we're going to make
our cities safe. We're going to make Chicago safe, We're
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going to make Memphis, Tennessee. We're there right now. We're
making it safe. That there's a difference in one week,
it's like day and night. I'm so it's so important
what we did in DC, Washington, d c our own
capital that people come to and it was crime ridden.
And now it's as safe as there is anywhere in
the country. It's safe, it's clean, we've cleaned it. We've
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gotten rid of the thugs. We've took one thousand, seven hundred,
in many cases career criminals and in many cases people
coming from other countries. It shouldn't have been allowed to
come gang members from other countries, jail people from jails.
The jails were literally opened up in Venezuela and other
countries into our country, and we've gotten them out and
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we're getting them out. We took out seventeen hundred in Washington,
d C. Seventeen hundreds that are no longer there, and
we have a safe, beautiful capital again. You can go
and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They
were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening.
And this all took place over the last two months.
It's amazing. Actually, nobody's ever seen a transformation like they
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have in Washington, DC. It's it's as hot as it
can get. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing to watch
and to see it be safe with our beautiful buildings.
They graffitis off the walls, the tent from all over,
thousands of tents in our beautiful parks, our national parks.
The tents are roll gone. Everything is is and it's
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only going to get better over the next year. It's
going to be there'll be some rebuilding and some fixing
up and some cleaning up, and people are proud of
our capital again. But the beautiful thing is it's really safe.
You can walk down the middle of the street with
your wife. You can walk down the middle of the
street by yourself, your your family can and you have
no fear if you did that. If you said that
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a year ago, they had almost no chance of making
it to the other side of the town. And so
we're very proud of DC and it serves as a
catalyst and it serves as really an example of what
can be done. But to do that, you have to
bring people in to do it. You can't have woke police,
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people that aren't suited to be police. You can't have
the kind of problems that we have. That is, I
mean almost in all cases it's Democrat run cities. So
you can't do that. So we're very proud of Washington.
It's a safe place and everybody. Should you want to
see some beautiful things in Washington, you go and you
go there right now. You probably your biggest problem is
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going to be you're probably not going to be able
to get into a restaurant. They're backed and they're booming.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Oh, mister President, I think there's a lot of lessons
to learn for how we got to this point tonight.
The proper use of the strength of the United States
military played a big role in this happening. The appropriate
use of it as well, and your willingness obviously to
invest a lot of political capital and time and energy
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and resources and networking and you know, to bring a
lot of people to the table. We pray for the
people in the region, and we prayed this is a
piece that lasts forever. But this is a great first step,
mister President, historic by every measure. We appreciate you being
on with us tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sir, Thank you very much, John, thank you, all right,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That was President trump Is initial reaction after announcing this
piece deal with Israel. You know what, the world's a
safer place. He took out RAN's nuclear sites. You know what,
the world's a safer place because he established of really
good relationships with Arab nations that for decades, even centuries,
if you want to know the real history of it.
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I have been unwilling to take part in any solution
for peace and places like Gaza, and the president got
it done. It's also got done because the region is
very aware when he says he will obliterate you after
taking out Iran's nuclear sites, that he means it pretty
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transformational consequential, which is what I knew this presidency would
be if he got elected. By the way, that's why
it is imperative you start thinking now about how important
this midterm is going to be and plan on participating.
I know I'm annoying, and you know what, because all
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progress will stop. These radicals in Congress will will not
allow this president to do anything of substance, and there'll
be more impeachments than you can ever imagine.
Coming up next, our final news round up and Information Overload, our.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
All right news round up in Information Overload, our here's
our toll free telephone number. If you want to be
a part of the program, It's eight hundred and ninety
four one Sean if you want to join us. We're
learning now through our friend John Solomon, who will join
us in a minute. In the horror that Peter Navarro,
our friend, went through, as Senator Chuck Rassley said, this
(00:27):
may be worse than Watergate. I'm talking about this Arctic
Frost investigation and Jack Smith, and it is, it is
so beyond the pal Now we have a full understanding
that he was targeting eight US senators and congress people
as well. But Grassley, you know, showed us earlier in
(00:48):
this week, two days ago he shed light on how
they handled the arrest of Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro has
been a long time friend of this program. He's a
good man. Peter Navarro was held in contempt to Congress,
which by the way, is a misdemeanor. And because of
whistleblowers and John Solomon's reporting, they provided additional records to
(01:08):
Chuck Grassley related to the Biden FBI. And you know
the most incredible part of this story is Peter Navarro
lives next store to FBI headquarters, so he would have
willingly turned himself in. They were talking to his lawyers,
but no, Instead they decided to follow him and surveil
(01:32):
him and his fiance all morning, follow him, and then
arrest him in public at Reagan Airport. It's called a
purp walk all over a misdemeanor charge. He could have
just walked next door. It would have been that simple.
A lot of this information over the last ten years
we would not have but for my friend John Solomon.
(01:54):
And he does not get enough credit for all of
his you know, incredible reporting. He's been a partner with
us on radio and TV, and this is something we
have talked about privately for years and now it's all
beginning to come to light. And thank god it is
John Solomon.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And good to be with you, Sean. And by the way,
I couldn't have done any of it without you every
day helping me and getting it out and explaining it
to the American public. So I'm very grateful for everything
you've done for me.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, I'm going to tell you, so why don't you
give your take on the story, and then we'll go
to the personal side. And a great article that was
written by Peter in a second.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
So, a couple of years ago I interviewed an fbig
and he'd served for two three decades, and he said,
at the very end of his career, he became very
disturbed by what he saw in the Komei ray era
of the FBI. And he said, part of it was bias,
going after liberals differently than you, and after conservatives. Liberals
got a past, conservatives got the hardest path possible. But
(02:56):
the most concerning of all things is he started to see,
particularly in the era of Russia collusion to January sixth,
that they were creating making it so that the FBI
would make the process the punishment, meaning if you didn't
something wrong, they were going to put you through a
process that was so punishing it would break you financially,
would break you psychiologically. And he said that we made
(03:17):
the process the punishment for people we didn't like, and
that disturbed him more than anything. He saw it as
an abuse of power and abuse of color of government authority.
And so when I got this document a couple of
days ago, compliments of Cash Barttel and Senator Chuck Passley.
It really gave us perhaps the most compelling example to
(03:39):
date of what that looks like. As you mentioned, Peter
Navarro is in a dispute between Congress and the old
Trump White House. It's a constitutional issue. He's decided not
to testify the honor President Trump's claims of executive privile
which the Biden Justice Department and the Democratic Congress decide
they want to find him in contempt demeanor issue. FBI
(04:01):
doesn't even normally make arrest and misdemeanor issues. They usually
just give you a summons and you show up in court.
But in this case, they not only planned to arrest
Peter Navarro, they intended to make it the most onerous
possible public spectacle they could. And so they took a
surveillance team, the team that you normally say for major spies,
(04:22):
for major terrorists, for major drug king pens. Yeah, yeah,
that's it. They have this group that does this, and
they surveilled them all day in the day they want
to arrest them, to wait for the moment where he
was in the most public, possible humiliating place, so that
then they can arrest him and humiliate him in public
on a misdemeanor, basically an administrative dispute between Congress and
(04:43):
there and they do that. They wait till he gets
to the airport, they arrest him, they put him in
leg irons. This is a seventy four year old guy.
He ate running off their own form show. They knew
he was not armed or dangerous, but they went through
that process to make sure that the process was the punishment.
Even if he were to be a quit down the
road or found that have done nothing wrong, they will
have humiliated him in public with the power and color
(05:06):
of government authority. That's what this document shows. Senator Grassey said,
it was a prime example of the politicization of the
White House. And when you look at the document and
you look at what happened, you have to ask yourself,
why did we the taxpayer, spend all that money to
surveiled a man who was willing to turn himself in
just so that someone could make a political statement under
the color of the FBI authority. And that is a
(05:28):
legacy of the Chris Ray Justice Department. Everyone focuses on
Komy for all the right reasons that you and I chronicled,
but Chris raised, FBI worked the same way. He might
have had a different personality and congressional hearings, he might
have got a different pass from Republicans in Congress. But
Chris raised, FBI did the same weaponization, the same politicization
(05:48):
that Comy's did. And when you're all done and said,
one of the most important documents I made public in
the last three weeks, it's a after action report. And
in that after action report, there are scores of FBI agents, scores,
not one or two, scores of agents saying we have
become a politically biased agency, that we treat liberals different
(06:09):
the conservatives, that we are not following the letter of
the law, we're following the letter of politics. They use
words like we're political pawns, where we have political bias.
We're no longer good in our core competencies because we're
more worried about what color mask we wear and what
gender we hire than about solving crimes. Perhaps it was
in real time FBI agent's boiling over and telling Chris
(06:30):
Ray's leadership we got a bias problem, and Chris Ray
swept that under the rug. That document was created in
twenty twenty one after the January sixth, investigation began. Four
years later we finally learned about it. It is an
extraordinary document. When Chris Ray looked at everybody and said, oh,
political bias is a MAGA talking point. At that moment,
there was a body of evidence that said his own
(06:50):
agents knew they had a political bias problem. That's what
the Peter Navarro story is all about.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Peter, You've become a good friend and I've come to
admire you so much. I went to prison so you
won't have to. You live right next door to the FBI, right,
that's I mean? And you even offered to turn yourself
in if they were going to come after you. Is
that correct?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Check both boxes. I was a field goal kicker back
in the day. I did literally kick of field goals
from my apartment building and hit the FBI that it
was that close. And what's true. By the way, John,
you are in the dedication of I went to prison
so you won't have to because of all the support
(07:35):
you gave me over the years, and I can't thank
you enough. And I should say that I always loved
years ago, starting years ago, how you would go through
your monologues with breaking down the Russia hoax like step
by staff, person by person by person. And I think, Sean,
what's important about what we're learning now about by arrest
(08:00):
from these documents is that I am kind of like
the thread that weaves over an eight year period of conspiracy.
Don't use that word lightly. Through this agent Walter Giardina
FBI agent Walter Gene. He was the guy who led
this crazy takedown to me at the airport, who put
(08:21):
me in handcuffs, who put me in leg irons. But
he's also the guy, going back Sean to twenty sixteen
and twenty seventeen, who gave the green light to the
Steele dossier as being legitimate, which begat crossed by a hurricane,
which Giordina was involved in. He was involved in the
Muller Report, Operation Crimson River, which was that crazy Egyptian
(08:45):
fake thing, and then Arctic Frost, which you're referencing now,
and I got caught in the middle of Hull Wave.
It wasn't just the fact that the process was punishment.
Process was punishment, but I also went to prison. But Sean,
everybody I served with in the Trump White House in
(09:05):
the first term paid a weaponized law fare price. Whether
It was hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars in
legal fees on one end, or imprisonment on the other end,
and everything in between. And I'll tell you what, Sean,
if I had gotten that document that was just released
this week by whistleblowers during my trial, that would have
(09:28):
been a game changer. But the judge Obama appointee who
got his job bundling campaign contribution for Obama and the
prosecutors denied me that document and a whole bunch of others,
which I think are going to come to light because
of the good work of the FBI and folks like Solomon,
and everything about what I went through was weaponization. Everybody involved, Sean,
(09:56):
with my incarceration was a Democrat, every single person, whether
the Congress, the Attorney General, the Matt Graves, the US
district attorney. If you had my prosecutors Alloy and crab
and they all have name Sean, and the whole point
of I went to prison so you won't have to
(10:17):
That's the tagline from the speech Sun and I gave
the day. The night of the day I got out
of prison, I walked onto that stage, didn't know what
to expect. I was just so warmed by that reception.
But I went to prison so you won't have to.
Is the warning call. If we don't hold these people accountable, John,
(10:38):
they will do it again and again and again. And
that was on full display this week with the Senate
Judiciary hearing that gractually held because when he turned the
microphone over to those clowns on the Democrat side of
the fence, whether it was Durban or Shift or everybody
in between, they talked just like they wanted to do
(10:59):
it again again. They have learned nothing, nothing, and so
we've got to hold them accountable. It's Old Testament time, Sean.
And because of all the work you've done over the years,
we know their names. It's not just call me. It's Clapper,
it's Brennon, it's Page, it's Struck, it's Rosensteam, it's Shift.
You just go on down the line. We've got a
(11:20):
problem we've got to solve. If we don't solve it, Sean,
we're going to just keep doing this crazy stuff. We
weaponize justice system. The American people are losing faith in
the whole system, Sir, quick.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Break right back more with Peter Navarro. You've got to
read his book. I went to prison, so you don't
have to Hannity dot com, Amazon dot com, bookstores around
the country. And John Solomon, editor in chief, founder and
chief investigative reporter justinnews dot com. More on the other side.
As we continue Sean Hannity defending freedom, providing clarity, and
(11:58):
calling out the left now more than ever we need Kennedy. Right,
(12:31):
we continue now with John Solomon justinnews dot com. He
is the founder, editor in chief and the chief investigative reporter,
and our friend Peter Navarro. I went to prison so
you won't have to unbelievable developments in this story. What
they did, the lengths they went to try and embarrass
(12:51):
and humiliate him over a misdemeanor, it is unprecedented and
has to stop. You wrote, sir that this circus arrest
was not an anomaly. It was a case study in
law fair where the process is the punishment. They could
have again, you could have walked over. You're in your
seventies and they're putting you in handcuffs and leg irons
(13:13):
over a misdemeanor, and oh it just so happens. Fake
news CNN cameras just happened to be there, like they
happened to be at Roger Stone's house at five am
the morning that they raided his house. Oh what a
I'm sure just a coincidence.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yeah, And let's forget Jeff Clark, who they banged down
the door on. And he's poor, poor young, very young children.
Manafort two, expose to that and Maniford. And I'll tell
you one of the themes, Sean, if I went to prison,
if you get to cover, it's got my fiance with
me on that stage and she actually it's a The
(13:54):
book is largely a diary kept by both myself and Bonnie.
And the lesson there for these weaponized democrats is that
it's not just when you come after me, Okay, that's fine,
but when you go after family loved ones, they wind
up doing the time with you. And Bonnie did the
time with me, Sean. She stood by me, but it
(14:18):
was tough and and these people need to be held
accountable for that. And I understand politics, and okay, it's
a dirty, dirty business. They went after me, but they
when they went after her, they purp blocked her, Sean,
they purp blocked her.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
I mean that that you can't you can't do well
I'm going to say this, and both of you are
going to be on TV tonight, and you did this
out of principle.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You could have pled the fifth and walked out of
there and it would have been done. But you you
believe so much in our constitution and executive privilege, and
unless the President himself waive that, and he did not,
h you're right in terms of the law and the
principles of it. John Solomon, just real quick, Peter mentioned
(15:03):
you know this one particular arresting agent. But I want
to know who made the who gave the order. I
want to know who knew and this would be at
the time of direct array at that point.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
That's correct. I believe Congress is beginning to put those
documents together all the way up the food chain. Who
was approving, extending, encouraging the carrying out of arctic frost.
It's going to certainly lead up to the top of
the Washington Field, also the FBI. I think it's going
to go much higher. We hope to see some of
those documents transmitted to Congress in the next few weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
We really have a lot more to get into. We're
going to finish this conversation tonight on Hannity. I'm so
glad grateful for both of you. I appreciate your courage. Peter,
I appreciate your hard nosed reporting. John, thank you both.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2 (17:35):
So immediately as the news was breaking, as I was
coming on the air last night on Hannity on Fox News,
I just texted the President. I said, Wow, I didn't
think i'd see this in my lifetime. I'll be, you know,
very transparent with what I said. I really didn't think
i'd see this in my lifetime. And the real possibility
(17:56):
of real peace. I mean for two years and now
three days we've had all these hostages and those that
our remaining will be released. The bodies of those that
did not survive will be released to their families as well.
That's obviously very important to them. And I just said
(18:16):
to the President, I said, I'd love to hear your
thoughts on it, with any chance you'd call in, and
he said yes, right away, And I want to play
that interview. This is right after the deal was announced.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
All right.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Joining us now live on the phone is the President
of the United States, Donald J.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Mister President. Wow, if you would have asked me two
years ago, yesterday, if this was possible, I would have
bet everything I had. No congratulations, sir. Can you give
us more of the details.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
John.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It's a great honor to be involved in it. We
had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from
Steve Whitcoff and Jared Krishtier and Marco and we had
everybody JD. The whole group was just amazing. And the
military was, as you know, very instrumental in getting this done.
(19:09):
We have a great military with great leadership. The whole
world came together. To be honest, so many countries that
you wouldn't have even thought of it, they came together.
The world has come together around this deal, and that's
something I would say that without that, it wouldn't happen.
So many countries that you wouldn't have thought of have
(19:29):
wired their best wishes and their commitment to do whatever
is necessary. The country surrounding of all signed. I mean,
they're all signed up, and it's been really an amazing
period of time and so great for Israel, so great
for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great for
(19:51):
this country, for the United States of America, and that
we could be involved in, you know, making a deal
like this happened because it was you know, many years
talk about peace in the Middle East. This is more
than Gaza. This is peace in the Middle East, and
it's an incredible thing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Mister President, you said in your statement that this is
the first phase of the peace plan and that the
hostages will be released very soon. I assume that means
both those that are alive and those that are not alive,
and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed uponline.
Can you expand on that and tell us maybe.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
What part two?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is there a part two or part three? Because the
idea has to be a lasting piece, and would that
include the security guarantees that Hamas can no longer be
armed with weapons that they can fire into Israel. I
was in a city, a border city in Gaza. Near Gaza,
they got hit with ten thousand rockets in ten years.
(20:53):
I was in those terri tunnels.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I think you're going to see all of that disappear.
I think you're going to see people get along and
you'll see gads are being rebuilt. We're forming a council
that the Council of Peace. We think it's going to
be called, and it's going to be very powerful and
it's going to really uh. I think to a large extent,
it's going to have a lot to do with the
(21:18):
whole Gaza situation. People are going to be taken care of.
It's going to be a different world. I think. Really
the Middle East came together amazingly. They came together. You know,
they have some countries with extraordinary wealth and just spending
a small portion of that wealth can do so much
for that area. So will we'll be involved in it.
(21:38):
But the big the big thing is hostages are going
to be released. It's probably our time would be probably Monday,
and you know, it's it's they're terribly a terrible situation.
They're they're deep, they're deep in the earth, and they're
being gotten and a lot of things are happening right
(21:58):
now as we speak. How much is happening to get
the hostages freed, and we think they'll all be coming
back on Monday, So it looks like that's the thing,
and that'll include the bodies of the dead. And you know,
the parents, the parents that we're I talked to so
many of them, but the parents are more almost more intent,
(22:21):
but equally intent is getting here. In just about all cases,
the son their son's body back than they are as
though the young man was alive. It's just the same
intensity they want. They want their baby's body back. That's
what one woman said, I want my baby's body back.
(22:42):
And you know the son is twenty five, twenty six
years old, so that's a very big part of it.
Getting all of the it's about twenty eight. The number
is twenty eight will be coming back, but unfortunately dead.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Mister President will last question, and I could ask you
a million questions about the Schumer shutdown, about the Antifa
roundtable you had today. I can get you know me,
I can keep going, but.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
I won't.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
By the end of this term as president. What vision
do you have? What would you like to see Gozl
look like? What will the relationship with Israel and other
Middle Eastern countries be like? You know, as this, as
this process continues to unfold, and as you have convinced
these other nations to finally involve themselves, and then we'll
(23:34):
let you go, sir, Well, Gaz is going to.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Be a peaceful, much safer place. Obviously it's been blown
to pieces, and this is just not by Israel. This
is over years and years and years. It's been heartache
for many years. A lot of people say this is
a deal for three thousand years. So whether you say
five hundred, because some people say five hundred based on events,
but other people say this is something historic for three
(23:58):
thousand years, is nothing ever going to be bigger than this.
And so Gaza, we believe, is going to be a
much safer place, and it's going to be a place
that reconstructs, and other countries in the area will help
it reconstruct because they have tremendous amounts of wealth and
they want to see that happen and will be involved
in helping them make it successful and helping it stay peaceful.
(24:22):
But I think it's going to be peaceful. I think again,
the Iran situation was very important doing what we had
to do, which was again twenty two years. It was
planned to be done and nobody, no other president wanted
to do it or whatever for whatever reason, but they
didn't do it, and having that was very important. But
you know, very I'm very confident there'll be peace in
(24:45):
the Middle East. I mean the words peace in the
Middle East is something people have been striving for for
hundreds of years, for centuries, for many centuries, and we
really have. Every country has come together and on a
little differ, different scale, but so important. It seems like
everything's at a different scale. But we're going to make
our cities safe. We're going to make Chicago safe, We're
(25:08):
going to make Memphis, Tennessee. We're there right now. We're
making it safe. That there's a difference in one week,
it's like day and night. I'm so it's so important
what we did in DC, Washington, d c our own
capital that people come to and it was crime ridden.
And now it's as safe as there is anywhere in
the country. It's safe, it's clean, we've cleaned it. We've
(25:32):
gotten rid of the thugs. We've took one thousand, seven hundred,
in many cases career criminals and in many cases people
coming from other countries. It shouldn't have been allowed to
come gang members from other countries, jail people from jails.
The jails were literally opened up in Venezuela and other
countries into our country, and we've gotten them out and
(25:54):
we're getting them out. We took out seventeen hundred in Washington,
d C. Seventeen hundreds that are no longer there, and
we have a safe, beautiful capital again. You can go
and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They
were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening.
And this all took place over the last two months.
It's amazing. Actually, nobody's ever seen a transformation like they
(26:18):
have in Washington, DC. It's it's as hot as it
can get. It's beautiful. It's a beautiful thing to watch
and to see it be safe with our beautiful buildings.
They graffitis off the walls, the tent from all over,
thousands of tents in our beautiful parks, our national parks.
The tents are roll gone. Everything is is and it's
(26:40):
only going to get better over the next year. It's
going to be there'll be some rebuilding and some fixing
up and some cleaning up, and people are proud of
our capital again. But the beautiful thing is it's really safe.
You can walk down the middle of the street with
your wife. You can walk down the middle of the
street by yourself, your your family can and you have
no fear if you did that. If you said that
(27:03):
a year ago, they had almost no chance of making
it to the other side of the town. And so
we're very proud of DC and it serves as a
catalyst and it serves as really an example of what
can be done. But to do that, you have to
bring people in to do it. You can't have woke police,
(27:25):
people that aren't suited to be police. You can't have
the kind of problems that we have. That is, I
mean almost in all cases it's Democrat run cities. So
you can't do that. So we're very proud of Washington.
It's a safe place and everybody. Should you want to
see some beautiful things in Washington, you go and you
go there right now. You probably your biggest problem is
(27:48):
going to be you're probably not going to be able
to get into a restaurant. They're backed and they're booming.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Oh, mister President, I think there's a lot of lessons
to learn for how we got to this point tonight.
The proper use of the strength of the United States
military played a big role in this happening. The appropriate
use of it as well, and your willingness obviously to
invest a lot of political capital and time and energy
(28:15):
and resources and networking and you know, to bring a
lot of people to the table. We pray for the
people in the region, and we prayed this is a
piece that lasts forever. But this is a great first step,
mister President, historic by every measure. We appreciate you being
on with us tonight.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Sir, Thank you very much, John, thank you, all right,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That was President trump Is initial reaction after announcing this
piece deal with Israel. You know what, the world's a
safer place. He took out RAN's nuclear sites. You know what,
the world's a safer place because he established of really
good relationships with Arab nations that for decades, even centuries,
if you want to know the real history of it.
(28:59):
I have been unwilling to take part in any solution
for peace and places like Gaza, and the president got
it done. It's also got done because the region is
very aware when he says he will obliterate you after
taking out Iran's nuclear sites, that he means it pretty
(29:20):
transformational consequential, which is what I knew this presidency would
be if he got elected. By the way, that's why
it is imperative you start thinking now about how important
this midterm is going to be and plan on participating.
I know I'm annoying, and you know what, because all
(29:40):
progress will stop. These radicals in Congress will will not
allow this president to do anything of substance, and there'll
be more impeachments than you can ever imagine.
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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.